Exactly. They are getting ready to spend millions of dollars more to retain and attract pilots but by simply not sending 5 additional pilots in March to meet the 50% of the class benchmark ,has done more damage to their recruiting than their low pay does. If they had started sending "extra" flows last year, creating real movement while we were "overstaffed", the 2.5 year upgrade would be more realistic to prospective pilots and they would be filling classes. If Wilson really wants the FLOW to be an incentive to new hires, it has to be at least 50% but the more the better.

They will have to exceed expectations with the flow. The classis Eagle style of making big promises and not following through isn't going to cut it during the current regional pilot staffing crisis. People have plenty of other options to pursue. If they would have flowed 50 a month last year, we would be flying 85 hrs lines, the upgrade would be down to the 2013 hires, and they would be filling their new hire classes with pilots that have confidence in the promise of flow.

The longer they wait to "exceed expectations" that less of an affect that such actions will have on recruitment. It may have already been too late. Imagine what their staffing would be today if Parker had come in and made improvements at Eagle in 2012 or at the very least accepted our bankruptcy contract. The pennies he saved back then is going to cost him dollars going forward.